Top 20 Bollywood Gangster Movies of the era

The guns are blazing and the gangs are all set to unleash mayhem. With the release of the bollywood gangster movie ” shoot out at wadala” we are taking a look back at some of the best gangster films in the recent history of Bollywood. Intense, brooding, violent characters, living violent lives!

India’s commercial Capital, where the incessant flow of dons has included Dawood Ibrahim, Abu Salem, Chhota Rajan and Manya Surve (shoot out at wadala), is now drawing up the gangster roster for inspiration as never before.

Shootout at Wadala is an upcoming Bollywood action crime drama film written and directed by Sanjay Gupta. It is the sequel to 2007 film Shootout at Lokhandwala, and is based on the book Dongri to Dubai written by Hussain Zaidi.

A smuggler rises to power in in 1970s Mumbai, a younger gangster seeks to overthrow him, and a police officer is caught in the middle. The movie, directed by Milan Luthria, draws upon a lot of real life incidents and characters in the Mumbai of 1970s when the underworld was beginning to take roots in the city’s underbelly. The film is supposed to be based on the lives of Haji Mastaan and his protege Shoaib.

This film starring Sanjay Dutt, Amitabh Bachchan and Vivek Oberoi drew its inspiration from the infamous shootout in Mumbai’s Lokhandwala area in the early ’90s. Sanjay Dutt played top cop, AA Khan, who was pulled up for questioning after the shootout. The gangster who was killed was Maya Dolas, played by Vivek Oberoi in this film.

A fictional expos of the Mumbai underworld. This film tells the real story fictionalised of the rise and fall of the D-Company. It also traced the fallout of Dawood Ibrahim and Chota Rajan (played by Ajay Devgan and Vivek Oberoi respectively) and the effect it had on the Mumbai underworld.

Two brothers are caught on the different sides of a gang war. Parinda is an award-winning 1989 Indian crime film directed and produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra. It is considered by many to be the turning point in reality in the hind gangster flicks of Indian cinema

Mr. Malwankar lives a small tenement in Grant Road, Bombay, with his son, Arjun, daughter, Sudha, and wife, Rukmini, who is his second wife, as his first wife passed away. Arjun is the story of a reluctant gangster who is made due to the poverty and bad conditions of the way the hero’s gamily is treated

A young man named Satya (J.D Chakravarthy) comes to Mumbai from South India in search of a job. Jailed for something he did not do. Satya that brought back the genre of gangster films into fashion. Satya was Ram Gopal Varma’s first in a series of films like Company and D. It was supposed to be have been inspired by the friends-turned-foes gangster Arun Gawli and politician Mohan Rawle. Manoj Bajpai played Arun Gawli and Govind Namdeo played Mohan Rawle.

The success of current gangster flicks is an obvious reason, of course, is the success of past crime films like Satya, Company, Sarkar, Vaastav, Shootout At Lokhandwala and Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai whihc have all been box-office hits.